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Jackie Warren, like many West Texas cotton farmers, took time last fall to appreciate the exceptional yields and quality he made from the 2007 crop. Then he got down to the business of figuring out how to do it again.
"I'm as nervous as I've ever been. I'm trying to figure out 2008," he said during an impromptu interview at the recent Beltwide Cotton Conferences in Nashville. "It's good to be at the Beltwide to talk with optimistic people. I know a lot of people here are working on a variety of production problems. Cotton prices have increased for the first time in years and I hope they stay up. Markets look better than they did in early December."
Warren, who farms near Lamesa, will rely on proven varieties, possible changes in his crop mix and maybe some equipment upgrades to offset a significant increase in production costs for the 2008 crop.
"Energy, fertilizer and labor costs will be higher this year," Warren said
"And every piece of equipment we use will be more expensive. I need to make fewer trips this year."
He's considering switching from 8-row to 16-row equipment. "A lot of farmers in our area are thinking about switching to 16-row units," he said. "Information I've seen indicates cost of 16-row equipment will not be higher than 8-row, in the long run. I think we'll save about 40 percent on fuel. Factoring in the cost of new equipment and pro-rating that over five years, it's still a positive move."
He could eliminate about half his equipment inventory. "I have six tractors and six planters and with 16-row equipment I can cut back to three each. I'll save as much as $90,000 on labor and about $60,000 on fuel."
He says 16-row units "do a beautiful job, especially with a guidance system. And it's easier to deal with three hired hands and three sets of equipment."
Warren says each crop year comes with its own sets of unknowns. "And there is no longer much room for error."
He'll do what he can to protect his investment. "I'll try to cover every acre to the maximum with crop insurance."
He says applying all his fertilizer early may not be a sound practice in West Texas. "We might not get a planting rain, and we can get hailed out. We can still come back with other crops, milo or peas, for instance. Peanuts look good this year. Contract offerings for 2008 look better than they did last year."
He said peanuts work well with cotton. "We can get better yields with cotton behind peanuts. We can get a break for a year and see about a half-bale increase in cotton yields when we rotate back. We also gain some fertility advantages."
Warren said he'll watch peanut opportunities carefully and may plant a few acres if the opportunity looks good. He said he'd need plenty of water. "Some of my water supply is not high quality because of salinity. I would want to use a high volume of irrigation to keep salt off the soil surface."
He said dryland acres would be "wall to wall cotton unless we see some drastic change.
"We're also seeing some Conservation Reserve Program acres come out of the program this year," Warren said. "Some of that likely will go back to cotton."
But West Texas farmers have other rotation options this year that offer profit potential. Irrigated wheat is one possibility. Milo is another. "I hear rumblings from some dryland cotton farmers about rotating with 25 percent of their acreage in milo. That's a good rotation. Milo builds up residue in the soil and helps with disease control. It also helps the budget. Inputs for milo are less than for cotton."
He said current milo price also makes it a good option. "At $4 a bushel, milo will lose money or break even at best. We have an opportunity to capitalize on good prices now and we need the rotation."
He's looking at cotton variety options for 2008, but is hesitant to change from what has worked. He planted FM 9060 Flex and FiberMax 958 last year. "It's hard to get away from something that's never failed us.
"Our 2007 crop was very good," he said. "We got an early stand and had a wonderful fall that made an extra half bale. Good fall weather made West Texas shine."
He said rainfall was timely. "We were pretty dry in July and to the end of August. But we got a good rain the first of September. Timing was perfect and that made us more cotton."
He said a volatile spring set the crop back early, but the open, warm fall and timely rain allowed the crop to catch up.
He's looking at other cost-saving practices. "Applying livestock manure is not a common practice in this area yet," he said. "We don't have livestock or dairy facilities close enough that freight cost is not an issue. But feedlots and dairies need to get rid of it and we need to use it. We will see more of it."
Warren has put the 2007 crop success behind him and is focused on 2008. He's farmed for nearly 40 years. "I've seen plenty of ups and downs and it always comes back to doing what keeps us in business. This blip in costs will settle out."
In the meantime, he said he can only "keep my head up and seize any opportunity that comes along."
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Andrew Bailey from Piney Flats TN and a senior at 'The Academy at King' has committed to competing as part of the King cycling team for his collegiate career. Drew has been racing for approximately 5 years and is currently a Cat 1 in MTB and a Cat 2 in both Road Racing and CX. He states that his favorite race is the Road Groan which must mean that he is a climber and there is no doubt he is built for climbing.
Bailey plans to major in Biology with the goal of entering medical school upon graduation from King. He states that he is looking forward to the more flexible class schedule that college offers as well as taking some challenging courses. Drew is currently a member of the 'Village Volkswagon' team based in Chattanooga with several current King team members so his transition to the King team will be a natural fit. Bailey has other connections to King as both his mother and aunt are King Alumni.
Coach Kreiss is excited to have Drew join the team stating; "Andrew is a quality young man. He is disciplined and committed to excelling both on and off the bike, in the classroom and as an athlete. He will fit in very well with the positive team culture we have developed at King."

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An 18-year-old high school student was hit and killed by an Amtrak train while walking on the tracks Tuesday night.
Paul Anthony Taylor of Thomasville was killed around 7 p.m. Tuesday near East Main and Cates streets in Thomasville. No one else was injured.
The Amtrak engineer told Thomasville police a pedestrian was walking south on the southbound tracks, and the pedestrian didn't respond to multiple horn blasts.
Some evidence indicates Taylor may have been listening to an MP3 player and couldn't hear the train or the horn, police said.
The engineer set the emergency brakes, but the train was going 79 mph before slowing down, police said. The train was going from New York to Charlotte.
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The day I found Find a Grave, I was on a grave hunting trip to Pennsylvania, dragging my long-suffering husband, John, with me while I took hundreds of digital photos of family graves! I also have a shoebox sized file box of "analog" photos, as well as records of other burials in places I have never visited! Since then, I have uploaded all my new photos and scanned most of my old ones! It's been a labor of love. Occasionally, I still find entries I've made that contain a note saying I plan to scan and upload a photo at a later time, if you see one of these, please drop me a note reminding me to do so. Obviously I have missed it.
I have been working on my family history since 1996, and most of my contributions are my own dead relatives, but I've always loved cemeteries, and sometimes I think my obsession with genealogy is just an excuse to walk thru old graveyards!
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College of Education curriculum studies students set sailUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education Department of Curriculum Studies students sailed to Molokaʻi this summer as part of the department's EDCS 630 Cultural Diversity and Education graduate course, which focused on the theme of Visions and Voyaging.
In partnership with the college's Get FIT (A Future in Teaching) program and the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS), the three-day voyage included an outreach event with faculty from Maui Community College, Molokaʻi High School, and nine UH Mānoa College of Education curriculum studies students.
The focus of this year's EDCS 630 was the critical examination and application of multicultural education. In collaboration with the PVS, students developed a voyaging curriculum that integrated navigation with the content areas of math, language arts, science and social studies to be used for Hōkūleʻa's worldwide voyage in 2013.
"This experience looked at education broadly and critically, helping teachers to envision what education should look like to serve all students," said Associate Professor Patricia Halagao. "Addressing the need for educational reform, the worldwide voyage will be a catalyst for change in curriculum development and pedagogy."
During the weekend voyage, the education and navigation communities continued to work together to develop a critical and culturally responsive unit plan. Participants have already begun to make connections in and out of the classroom, which is part of the course's culminating goal to educate the children of Hawaiʻi and worldwide.
In an original reflection poem by College of Education graduate student and Kamehameha teacher, Anna Lee Lum, she writes, "Steeped in knowledge of our past, guided by the wisdom of our ancestors/ We envision our future together."
For more information, visit: http://www.coe.hawaii.edu/about/stories/EDCS_630


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GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — Montgomery County police say they're seeking potential additional victims of a man who has been charged with two separate sexual assaults.
The two attacks occurred in November and last month, and police said Friday they think there might be more victims.
Ramon Vasquez, of Silver Spring, is awaiting trial for the November attack, which police say involved two women who accompanied him to his home.
He was released on bond in January, but was arrested this week after a female friend of his reported waking up last month without clothing to find Vasquez on top of her.
A lawyer for Vasquez, who is currently being held without bond, did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment Friday.
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Nigeria - NCC Consults Operators on Services for Physically Challenged PersonsThe Nigerian Communications Commission has announced plans to hold a consultative forum with telecom service providers with respect to persons with disability and the elderly.From Punch on the Web, July 31, 2008
User-Centered Policy Evaluations of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act: Evaluating E-Government Web Sites for Accessibility for Persons With DisabilitiesThe author examines user-centered evaluations of e-government Web sites for compliance with a policy related to persons with disabilities: the requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. From RedOrbit.com, July 31, 2008
Real-Time Text Aims to Improve Internet Accessibility for Deaf and Hard of HearingThe blossoming of multimedia content on the Internet in recent years has revolutionised personal interactions, business communications, and other online services. But for millions of Internet users with sensory disabilities, many of the communication tools remain frustratingly out of their reach.From Government Technology, July 31, 2008
Beijing Unveils Communication Service for DisabledBeijing has unveiled a communication platform for the disabled on Wednesday in a bid to help the city's nearly 300,000 blind or deaf residents to send digital signals in case of emergency. From Xinhuanet News Agency, July 30, 2008
South Africa - Government Makes Strides in Accommodating DisabledPeople with disabilities are contributing to the economy, says the Inter Departmental Coordinating Committee on Disability (IDCCD).
Speaking on behalf of the IDCCD and the Inter Provincial Forum on Disability, during a National Disability Summit held on Tuesday, Sithembile Lunguza said government had done much to ensure people with disabilities contribute towards making South Africa a prosperous country.
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ISO/IEC Standard: Guidelines for Making IT Office Equipment Friendlier for the Elderly and DisabledHave you printed your bus schedule today? Sent an e-mail? Made an online payment? At a time when information and communication technology (ICT) is becoming increasingly critical for fulfilling everyday tasks at home and at the office, an ISO/IEC standard will ensure that the elderly and disabled are not left out. From The FINANCIAL, Business News & Multimedia, July 28, 2008
Australia Ratifies, Latvia Signs, Disability Rights TreatyAustralia became the 30th country to ratify the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on July 17, 2008. On the following day, Latvia became the 130th country to sign the CRPD.
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UNA-USA Backs Nomination of Top Human Rights OfficialAmbassador William H. Luers, president of the United Nations Association of the USA, issued the following statement concerning the nomination by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of Navanethem Pillay to serve as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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Canada - More Jobs for Disabled: StatsCanA growing percentage of people living with disabilities are finding work, representing the largest increase in the employment rate among Canadians, according to a new report from Statistics Canada.
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China - Those Who Can't See Can SurfHave you read the news online today? Sent an e-mail? Used an online search engine? Accessibility websites ensure that disabled people are no longer excluded at a time when the Internet is indispensable to everyday life.
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A Roseland man was arrested Thursday after taking money from at least one person at a CeaseFire event, after telling her she won four tickets to the BET Music Awards and pretending to work for a local radio station.
Jackie Roberson, 29, of Roseland, attended a CeaseFire event on June 15, according to state prosecutors, while pretending to work for the radio station 92.3. While there, he told some people they had won a trip to a music industry awards show in Los Angeles at the end of the month. But before he could hand over the tickets, Roberson allegedly said he would need $150 in cash to cover "taxes."


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Former state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. will spend five years in prison after pleading guilty to tax fraud charges.
Espada was sentenced Friday in Brooklyn.
The once-influential politician also was convicted in a separate case alleging he looted taxpayer-subsidized health clinics.
Espada operated the clinics in the South Bronx for three decades until prosecutors accused him of turning the network into a personal ATM.
Speaking before the sentence was pronounced, Espada offered no signs of remorse. He instead talked about the clinics' history of providing care to poor New Yorkers.


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Grocers eager to enter liquor biz
In an effort to head off the kind of inititive-driven deregulation now underway in neighboring Washington, where prices did indeed take a jump, the OLCC has proposed groceries encompassing at least 10,000 square feet be allowed to add hard liquor to their inventory. That would cover all but small mom-and-pop markets.
Ken Skinner, contract agent for McMinnville's lone state liquor store, located in the Baker Square shopping center on Highway 99W, said he thinks the state will manage to head off the grocers' move to implement full privatization.
He said pushes for privitization have come to nothing time and again during his 40 years in the business. He said the state simply can't afford to give up the revenue.
According to the OLCC, liquor sales netted $396.7 million during the 2011-13 biennium. The agency said $225.6 million went to the state for its general fund, $70.1 million to Oregon cities, $49.1 million to a state and city revenue-sharing account, $35 million to Oregon counties, $16.4 million to a drug, alcohol and mental health treatment program and $565,000 to the Oregon Wine Board.
Skinner started in the business in 1971 as a store employee in Beaverton. He came to McMinnville in 1977 to run the local outlet.
He feels he would still be able to compete, regardless. He said grocers would never carry the high-end products he carries.
"I'll still be around for a while," he said. "I can compete with the big boys."
The OLCC was created by the Oregon Legislature in a 1933 special session marking the end of a national experiment of Prohibition. It was given the exclusive right to sell packaged distilled spirits, which are dispersed from a Portland distribution center.
Today, the state has 242 retail outlets, all run by contract agents.
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Danny Pudi and wife Bridget brought their twins — daughter Fiona Leigh and son James Timothy — to the launch party for Citrus Lane, where fellow NBC star Angela Kinsey was unveiled as brand ambassador, on Sept. 8 in Los Angeles.
"The ¼ Indian, ¼ Polish, ½ Irish twins are keeping us busy and we're loving every minute of it," Pudi, 33, said shortly after his now 8-month-old children's birth in January.
"Here's to being pooped and peed on!"
Click below for more photos of Angela Kinsey, Lindsay Sloane, Layla Kayleigh, Bethany Joy Lenz and their kids from the event!
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"When I had Isabel, no one told me how tired I was going to be. I was constantly out of time, and I didn't always get to research something before I bought it," The Office star, 41, tells PEOPLE.
"In Citrus Lane, I found a community of parents and all these awesome products. The box comes to you."
She and Isabel especially enjoyed the back-to-school box, Kinsey says.
"Isabel was really nervous about starting pre-K … so the box [began] this conversation and helped us. There was a book called Back to School and a cute little lunchbox, plus snack items that I hadn't heard about," she explains.
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The couple's 2½-year-old little girl enjoyed getting her face painted and choosing a balloon shaped like The Little Mermaid's Ariel — no reason for one of the toddler tantrums Kayleigh, 28, writes about!
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This was the first public event for the actress' baby girl, whom Sloane, 35, and husband Dar Rollins welcomed in January.
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Next up for the former One Tree Hill star? Lenz, 31, will guest-star as Meg on the TBS sitcom Men At Work.


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An easy installation mounted under the plastic mirror body with two stainless steel screws. First, two holes are drilled through the bottom of the mirror. Well nuts are inserted into the two holes and the screws solidly hold the mounts in place. These mounts can receive most all accessory lights available with exception of the extra wide 3 and 4 spot units.
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Best Practices for Creating a Successful Budget
The library budget is the result of local money funding an important local function. Remind your budgeting authority how its library returns value to the community and aligns with the community's priorities during every budget cycle (and at every other opportunity).
A community's priorities are the priorities of the community's library – library patrons and their elected officials need to know exactly how everyone benefits by supporting this community asset. Patrons (voters) need to let politicians know that they support libraries. Politicians will gain votes using the same message to voters.
Understand how to use comparative data (from similar library communities or against your own library's historical data) that support your budget narrative. Have a strong understanding of contemporary and past budget events in your community; learn how to use statistical trends to support your arguments.
Your profession is collegial and filled with people who love learning and helping others – remember there are many librarians out there who are willing to share their experiences with you. Your greatest resource for budgeting advice could be your professional colleagues.
Work with the community's representatives – board members, Trustees, Friends groups, and elected officials. Whether the economy is waxing or waning, these groups support and care about libraries and will help you to align the budget with the community's priorities.
Budgeting is a year-round practice that requires constant attention; teach staff members and non-staff supporters always to keep their eyes open for opportunities to fine-tune the processes and efficiencies of your library.
The community's library is always about the future of the community – your budget proposal relates directly to the youth of your community.
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Christmas Tree Fantasy auction raised $16,000
The tree, wreath and holiday decor auction at the 34th annual Christmas Tree Fantasy Thursday night brought in about $16,000, according to event chair Jana Rupe.
One Christmas tree donated by Milestone/E.M. Tanner sold for $1,200 while another tree, decorated in the memory of Gene 'Fatboy' Taylor, was purchased, donated back to the auction, and then sold again.
Rupe said she is pleased with the outcome of this year's auction, considering there were fewer trees donated to the event this year.
"We are always happy with what we get," Rupe said. "Blackfoot is a very generous community."
The final day of the Christmas Tree Fantasy is today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Needlecraft building on the Eastern Idaho State Fairgrounds. The entrance fee is $2 per person or $10 for immediate family.
The money raised from the event goes toward local charities such as SEICCA, the Bingham Crisis Center and other nonprofit agencies.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The energy boom of the last decade that has boosted oil and gas production in the United States has outpaced the development of critical infrastructure to transport the raw and refined materials, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said on Thursday.
Reflecting on a spate of accidents involving freight trains pulling tank cars full of volatile crude oil in Canada and the United States, Moniz said that infrastructure development was key, even beyond a reconsideration of rail regulations now under way by U.S. authorities.
"The core approach, really, is that our infrastructure needs to build out," Moniz said in an interview with Reuters Insider.
"Here we have a case, especially with the production in North Dakota, where the Bakken shale (output) zoomed from essentially nothing to past 1 million barrels a day," he said.
"There's not the pipe infrastructure for moving the product out ... you have a slight mismatch in terms of how we add infrastructure to handling our new production."
One way of getting more crude oil out of the Bakken would be TransCanada Corp's proposed Keystone pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, expected to have "onramps" to pick up oil in North Dakota.
Moniz did not discuss Keystone, though, in a broad-ranging interview that touched on U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export markets, carbon capture and sequestration, and the Obama administration's "moral obligation" to work on ways to mitigate climate change.
In December Moniz caused a stir by suggesting that a 40-year ban on exports of U.S. crude oil was outdated.
On Thursday he said merely that the "tremendous increase" in oil and natural gas production "is certainly reordering our view of the energy markets and also the reality of the energy markets."
Moniz said the Energy Department has not put a hold its consideration of LNG export terminals. After a flurry of approvals in mid-2013 the most recent announcement was on November 18.
The government has been methodically working down a list of more than a dozen proposals. "We are continuing to evaluate the next one," Moniz said.
Moniz said the Department of Energy is continuing to look for ways to mitigate propane shortages in parts of the country that have caused prices of the heating oil to reach record highs this month.
"We are in direct communication with the Department of Transportation, the Department of Commerce, and the Domestic Policy Council at the White House so we can bring whatever we can to bear on this issue," he said, adding that the Energy Department also has some authority to prioritize how propane is moved.
"I personally and many here at the Department of Energy have been on the phones every day to state governments, to state energy offices, to understand the situation," he said.
The shortages have affected millions of Americans this month as brutally cold weather laid bare the vulnerabilities of the distribution network of a fuel used to heat homes, schools and businesses across wide areas of the United States.
Moniz spoke two days after President Barack Obama, in his annual State of the Union address, reaffirmed the administration's "all-of-the-above" energy strategy, meant to develop a wide range of sources for domestically produced energy.
"Our job here, at the DOE, is to keep investing in all the technologies so that they can be competitive in the future market, where we expect there will be significant restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions," Moniz said.
Existing science is more than adequate for establishing a base of action on climate change, he said.
"We have an economic obligation, we have a security obligation, we have an environmental obligation, and we have a moral obligation to work on this," said Moniz.
"We believe we must show leadership if we are going to get the kind of international response that is ultimately required for us to meet a global threat."
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1 – In shops and gold souqs they sell a metal which is white like silver; some people call it white gold and some call it platinum. Do I have to pay zakaah on it, and is the rate of zakaah on it the same as zakaah on yellow gold?
2 – There is a certain mark that appears on the forehead of some men, which people call the sign of prayer. My husband does not have this mark even though he prays all the prayers regularly in the mosque and is very religious. Is this mark what is referred to by the aayah (interpretation of the meaning): "The mark of them (i.e. of their Faith) is on their faces (foreheads) from the traces of prostration (during prayers)" [al-Fath 48:29]? Why don't all men get this mark, and why don't women get it? Does its absence mean anything?
3 – We have been living in a rented apartment for five years, and we have felt and noticed many things that make us think that the apartment is inhabited by jinn. In the last few days I have seen a glass cup in the kitchen, flying and throwing itself against the wall, crashing to the ground in pieces of glass. We don't know what to do.
4 – I am a Muslim woman and like many others I am filled with grief at what America and the Jews are doing to the Muslims. I do not know what is my duty before Allaah with regard to this matter, and what I can do so that I will be free of blame before Allaah. Is there any specific thing that I should do?
1 – If it is gold or silver, then zakaah has to be paid on it. To be certain of what it is, you should consult the experts in that field.
2 – This mark does not necessarily appear on the forehead of every person who prays. Rather people vary in the nature of their skin, and the fact that it appears does not mean that a person is righteous. The well-known view among the mufassireen is that the phrase "The mark of them (i.e. of their Faith) is on their faces" refers to the light of obedience.
3 – You have to read Soorat al-Baqarah in the house once a day for three days.
4 – Strive in making du'aa' for your brothers there, that Allaah may answer your prayers; and give charity to them as much as you can.


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Over 1,500 students were able to witness the tragic consequences of drinking and driving on Tuesday, April 28, when Memorial High School in Port Arthur hosted a presentation from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office's Shattered Dreams Program. The annual car-crash demonstration is meant to outline the dangers of drinking and driving, especially for teens.
Students and staff of Hardin-Jefferson High School in Sour Lake witnessed the devastating results of drinking and driving in a demonstration as part of the Shattered Dreams Program hosted by the school March 27.
Wednesday, Sept. 18, at Nederland High School, students were presented with a preview of what to expect if they make the wrong decision and choose to drink and drive.
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Four Lancaster County high school soccer teams finished the season ranked in the final EurosportScoreboard state soccer polls.
The EurosportScoreboard is the scoreboard for S.C. scores and updates on soccer teams.
Both Indian Land teams capped the season with a top three ranking in Class AA soccer.
The Indian Land High School boys of veteran coach Adam Cole finished No. 2 in the final Class AA boys state poll.
The Warriors, who were 17-6 on the season, fell to Bishop England for the Class AA boys state title May 13 at Irmo High School.
The White team shined brightest in the annual Buford High School spring football game Wednesday at Jacket Stadium.
The White, with a 31-13 win over the Maroon team, used a strong second half to take the 18-point victory to close BHS spring drills.
"We had a good spring and made strides with our team," BHS third-year coach Tripp Watts said.
KERSHAW – A host of honors were presented during the annual Andrew Jackson High School All-Sports Awards on Tuesday night.
AJ senior tri-sport athlete Brantley Ussery was honored as the school's Athlete of the Year presented by the Kershaw News Era.
Lancaster High Lady Bruins' basketball player Alexis Williams enjoyed the LHS girls up tempo style so much she's going to continue.
Williams, a 5-11 forward for the Lady Bruins, is taking her game to Voorhees College, a NAIA school in Denmark, S.C.
"I like that style of play and they play like that at Voorhees," she said.
KERSHAW – Andrew Jackson High School senior golfer Chandler Norville is ready to move on, so he's taking his game to Hiwassee College in Madisonville, Tenn.
Norville, a five-year member of the Volunteers' golf team, will continue his education and golf career at the NAIA school, a member of the National Christian College Athletic Association.
The Lancaster High School spring sports awards honored spring stars at the event held Tuesday in the LHS auditorium.
The Lancaster Bruins soccer program took center stage as the teams each posted region championships for the first time this season.
Zeke Williams, the Bruins' Offensive MVP, was named the Co-Region III-AAA Player of the Year.
Williams will also play in the annual North-South All-Star Soccer Match in Rock Hill next month.
The newly crowned state champion Buford High School softball team drew the maroon and gold spotlight at the annual Jackets spring-winter sports awards on Tuesday night in the BHS gym.
The Lady Jackets, 24-5, defeated Class AA Lower State champion Dillon, 2-1 to capture the best-of-three series, 2-1. The BHS team, which went 8-1 in postseason play, captured the Region IV-AA softball crown with a 12-0 mark and the Class AA Upstate championship with six straight wins.
INDIAN LAND – Will Van Hoose is returning to his West Virginia roots to continue his education and athletic career.
Van Hoose, an all-star wrestler at Indian Land and a former West Virginia resident, is headed back to the "Mountain State," with big plans.
Van Hoose, with an athletic and academic scholarship, will attend West Virginia Tech for college and wrestle for the Golden Bears.
Van Hoose made his decision official Wednesday when he signed with West Virginia Tech in the Indian Land High School media center.
The Lancaster Bruins capped spring football drills, with the White team taking an 18-6 win over the Blue squad in the annual LHS spring football game Monday at the Rice Athletic Complex field.
The game was actually slated to be played Friday, but heavy rain washed out the action and the game was reset to Monday afternoon at the Rice Building field.
The game, the third spring clash under LHS coach Bobby Collins, came down to overtime possessions.
The White team was able to convert on their chances, while the Blue team was held scoreless to decide the game.
FLORENCE – Buford, on an overcast and misty evening, reigned supreme.
The 24-5 Lady Jackets, bolstered by clutch play, captured their second state softball championship, taking a tough 2-1 win over Dillon High School for the Class AA state championship on a dank Friday night at the South Florence High School softball field.
The one-run BHS win gave the Class AA Upper State champion Lady Jackets the state crown, taking the best-of-three series, 2-1.
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writer who studied the best and refuses to bow to the wind and rain of any
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melodies will stay with you long after the record has finished playing.,
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Just a few short days ago, Buzz was all the buzz on the internet and in internet-savvy circles. It didn't take long for us, as Android users, to notice the greatest limitation of Buzz: lack of full support for pre 2.0 handsets. We complained, cried, and raised our voices in anger at Google, saying things like "you support the iPhone but not a version of Android that's still being shipped on new phones?" Maybe Google heard us. Maybe they had this in the cards all along.
So, users of 1.6 and 1.5, take out your phones, load up your favorite browser, head to http://buzz.google.com and simply tap on "Continue on an unsupported device." Reading Buzzes from the people you follow works fully but it seems that the Nearby feature might not be able to access your phone's location. On my 1.6 test device I simply got "Location is not available" and, obviously, on the emulator the same message appeared.
The Google Mobile blog, back on Tuesday the 9th, told us all about Buzz. Then at about 4:40PM that day they published an "update" at the end of their post, explaining that Maps 4.0 with the Buzz layer was already available for 1.6 but that the site, buzz.google.com, would not work unless you were using 2.0+. They also said that "we're working to support other versions soon." Apparently soon means this weekend.
At the time of this post, I am unable to find any official word from Google, announcing access to the Buzz mobile page for unsupported devices. This is pretty typical of Google, though, as they hardly ever make a big to-do about features–just about new products or services.
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Pha Taem National Park
This park covers an area of 140 square kilometers, where plateaus and hills dominate the parks landscape. There are sheer cliffs, which resulted from earthquakes. Most trees are of the deciduous dipterocarp forest. Irregular shaped sandstone is found scattered throughout the area.
Namtok Saeng Chan or Namtok Long Ru
This waterfall is only 1 kilometer from Thung Na Muang Waterfall. This is a very beautiful waterfall with a special characteristic of its own the small stream of water cascades down the face of the cliff through an opening in the rock resembling a hole. Visitors viewing the waterfall at noon when the sunlight shines through the hole will be presented with a view of the cascading water similar to that of the full moon shining onto the world. Travelling can be made from Highway No. 2134, followed by Highway No. 2112, and then turning right to the waterfall.


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E.M. Forster, Middle Manager
The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929–1960
In the taxonomy of English writing, E.M. Forster is not an exotic creature. We file him under Notable English Novelist, common or garden variety. Still, there is a sense in which Forster was something of a rare bird. He was free of many vices commonly found in novelists of his generation—what's unusual about Forster is what he didn't do. He didn't lean rightward with the years, or allow nostalgia to morph into misanthropy; he never knelt for the Pope or the Queen, nor did he flirt (ideologically speaking) with Hitler, Stalin, or Mao; he never believed the novel was dead or the hills alive, continued to read contemporary fiction after the age of fifty, harbored no special hatred for the generation below or above him, did not come to feel that England had gone to hell in a hand-basket, that its language was doomed, that lunatics were running the asylum, or foreigners swamping the cities.
Still, like all notable English novelists, he was a tricky bugger. He made a faith of personal sincerity and a career of disingenuousness. He was an Edwardian among Modernists, and yet—in matters of pacifism, class, education, and race—a progressive among conservatives. Suburban and parochial, his vistas stretched far into the East. A passionate defender of "Love, the beloved republic," he nevertheless persisted in keeping his own loves secret, long after the laws that had prohibited honesty were gone. Between the bold and the tame, the brave and the cowardly, the engaged and the complacent, Forster walked the middling line.
At times—when defending his liberal humanism against fundamentalists of the right and left—that middle line was, in its quiet, Forsterish way, the most radical place to be. At other times—in the laissez-faire coziness of his literary ideas—it seemed merely the most comfortable. In a letter to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, Forster lays out his casual aesthetics, casually:
All I write is, to me, sentimental. A book which doesn't leave people either happier or better than it found them, which doesn't add some permanent treasure to the world, isn't worth doing…. This is my "theory," and I maintain it's sentimental—at all events it isn't Flaubert's. How can he fag himself to write "Un Coeur Simple"?
To his detractors, the small, mild oeuvre of E.M. Forster is proof that when it comes to aesthetics, one had really better be fagged: the zeal of the fanatic is what's required. "E.M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot," thought Katherine Mansfield, a fanatic if ever there was one. "He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea." There's something middling about Forster, he is halfway to where people want him to be. Even the compilers of The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, an exhaustive collection of broadcasts between 1929 and 1960, find it necessary to address the middlebrow elephant in the room:
Forster, though recognized as a central player in…
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I'm a former C-141 pilot who lives in Tucson AZ, not far from the Davis-Monthan bone-yard where virtually all C-141's were scrapped. It was a very sad thing to see.
After watching this travesty I started a project to put up this non-commercial web site with photographs of EVERY C-141 that ever existed and ANYTHING else related to the C-141. This includes pictures of ground operations, maintenance activities, cargo loading/unloading, passengers, crew bus adventures, transient quarters horror pictures, faces and places, .. just about anything you can think of .. as long as it is somehow related to the C-141.
If you flew or worked in the Air Force for any time, on any aircraft (even if it was not a C-141!!) , in any capacity, to anywhere in the world, you might have some C-141 pictures in a photo album or shoe-box under the bed just gathering dust and waiting to see the light of day. If you have any photographs, slides, or negatives of the C-141, in any of its several versions and colors, and would be willing to contribute them for posting on this site, please let me know. I have the ability to scan 35mm slides, negatives, hardcopy prints, and of course, can accept any digital pictures you might have.
I've been getting lots of great material from lots of diverse sources. A guy named Bob Cogen signed the guest book on August 31, 2004, shortly after this site was started and nicely summed up the feelings of just about everyone who ever had anything to do with the C-141:
Add up all the experience of every crew dog, GI, POW, dependent, patient and evacuee that benefited from the C-141 and you can begin to realize how much this veteran aircraft contributed. The C-141 made a real difference to our country and the world. That long green tube has seen it all: life, death, hope, despair, triumph, and tragedy. Yet through it all it has been a steadfast friend that gave more than could be expected.
It is sad to see the end come. Our powerful friend is now old and tired. It helps to remember the Starlifter's time was spent with the best people doing their best work for the best country in the world. What an honor it has been.
Any materials you provide will be digitized and promptly returned and you will get proper credit on the web site. I am donating my time and web space. If you have a web site or business that sells photos or otherwise is commercial in nature (e.g., sells C-141 or other aviation related merchandise) I will be happy to provide a link at no charge in exchange for pictures that can be posted on this site. If you just loved the C-141 and want to see it live on in C-141 Heaven, now is the time and this is the place to send your pictures.
Thanks for reading this, and I hope to hear from you soon.
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One last thing:Tiananmen Square: This site is running on a Unix/Linux hosting solution Blocking web traffic from 'bad places' is tough since I don't have direct access to the configuration and firewall setups. Lately there's been a lot of crap posts from China and elsewhere on the Guestbook. While looking for a solution I came across one guy who said he'd eliminated a lot of Chinese access to his site by posting a link to Tiananmen Square! and the Chinese govt. blocks a lot of locals from reading the truth about it. Can't hurt! And you might learn something if you read it.


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Effie Earls
Effie Earls, 93, passed away Saturday, April2 6, 2014, in Dumas.
Effie was born on March 17, 1921 in Chelsea, Oklahoma to William Hurley and Odessa (Bee) Raymon. Effie was married to Pete Earls on July 12, 1958 in Borger, Texas.
Effie was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Pete Earls; son David Foster; a brother Charles Raymon and a sister Louise.
Survivors include one son Richard Earls and his wife Sharon of Stinnett; one brother Frankie Raymon; three grandsons; one granddaughter; one great granddaughter; and two great grandsons.
Viewing will be at Brown Funeral Directors in Borger on Monday, May 5, 2014 and Tuesday May 6, 2014 from 8:00 AM until service time.
Graveside services will be Friday, May 6, 2014, at 2:00 PM at Stinnett Cemetery in Stinnett with Rev. Dennis Richardson officiating.
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One vote separates surrender
UNIOPOLIS — If anything, Uniopolis residents showed they are in no hurry to find out their election results.
With seven provisional ballots left to be counted in 10 days, the vote to surrender corporate powers of the village tallied 55 for 56 against as unofficial numbers were released by the Auglaize County Elections Board Office.
During the 2011 general election, the race for mayor between Marilyn Fleck and Bill Rolston came down to one vote during unofficial Election Day totals. Rolston eventually won by two votes when provisional ballots were tallied later.
Auglaize County Board of Elections Director Carolyn Campbell said it was also possible a few absentee ballots may have been mailed and not received yet that were postmarked prior to Monday's deadline.
The vote came on the heels of a tense village council meeting Monday, in which several members of council chastised Rolston for a letter he circulated to residents around town concerning an extra fee of $650 to $750 that would be charged to residents. The letter came out just before the election, and council members had not time to counter the claim for what they felt were bogus claims.
Rolston said would not reveal his source, but said he had been told by a reliable source that village residents could face a $650 to $750 fee for new buildings if the village was absolved into Union Township.
However, Union Township trustees rejected those claims, saying at both their own meeting and a Uniopolis Village Council meeting that the fee was only for new construction of homes.
Rolston claimed to have spoken to a commissioner concerning the fee, but later retracted that statement and said he had no intentions of revealing his source.
Rolston said he had not discussed the preliminary results of the election with anyone, and said he plans to wait and see what happens when the election is certified. However, he did say he felt his letter that went out did not have an impact.
"I don't think it had any influence not he vote," Rolston said.
However, councilor members did not share Rolston's feeling.
"If he didn't think it would have an impact, then why did he send it out?" councilor Greg Ritchie said. "One has to wonder, with the letter coming out this late."
"The information was incorrect," councilor Elaine Wenning said. "The information he had in his letter was discussed at the October meeting."
Wenning said she felt the council owed the Union Township Trustees an apology for the way they were blindsided by the letter circulated by Rolston.
"We are sorry it happened," Wenning said. "I know we have freedom of speech, but when you are a mayor, you are a mayor 24 hours, 7 days a week. He should have done his homework about the information he released and discussed it with the council."
The vote needed a majority to approve the dissolving of the village, so if it results in a tie, the village will keep its corporate status.
Councilors agreed that the measure will force the village to continue down a tough road financially if the move to unincorporate ultimately fails.
"We really thought it would pass, and we hadn't really made plans on what to do," Wenning said. "We will really have to put our heads together. To run the town, it is going to take a 10-mill levy. We will be able to take care of the things we absolutely have to, but that is about it."
Ritchie said street lighting would likely be the next issue.
"We will keep tightening the belt," Ritchie said. "We all look at taking out some of the street lights. We will ride it out and do what we can do."


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My love-hate relationship with the Internet
I find technology fascinating but I am also terrified of it. I didn't even buy a cell phone until years after all my friends had them. The first two computers I ever owned were hand-me-downs, and I quickly killed both within six months. Basically, I had to ease myself into the idea of the "World Wide Web" and have come to discover, at this point in life, it controls almost everything I do. It may in fact eventually be the demise of my industry.
I would say that I first noticed the impact the Web was having on news when our newsroom stopped getting newspapers delivered. The edict was: Get it online—it's free. I find this to be somewhat annoying in that we essentially may be contributing to the end of newspaper publishing. What I don't believe is that the general public understands the effect of reading news online rather than picking up a newspaper or turning on the nightly news, be it local or national.
For the most part, we are the source for the news that everyone is reading online. If you go to any news-based website, you will find stories that are links to already-produced news from TV stations, radio stations and newspapers around the world. Meanwhile, the revenue streams for all three continue to dry up because people are no longer tuning in and are instead getting the info they want, customized to their needs, online. Most advertisers are following them. Do you see where this is going?
Let's pretend that all the TV stations in America stop news operations and newspapers go away because there is no money coming in. Where, then, will most of the news you read online come from? You would be hard-pressed to find any source remaining that is not creating its own stories. Therefore, your news is no longer the journalism that we've all come to know, the kind that has been shaping this country for centuries and has been held to ethical standards that today's Internet is not.
Don't get me wrong. I don't believe the damage at this point is beyond repair. I don't even believe that a disappearance of the concept of journalism will happen in my lifetime. Perhaps if the backers of news were to invest in doing it right online, we could all ride this wave together. I don't see that happening until someone realizes the amount of money invested in new media needs to be the handled the way television was in its early days.
I will now e-mail this to someone who will post it to a website that I will be able to share with my friends via Facebook. Later I will look at it on my cell phone, which has become pretty much anything but a phone.


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With the smell of smoke in the air, Denver police detectives looked for a motive in a bizarre, horrifying attack Thursday night in the Sunnyside neighborhood.
According to police, two men showed up at the door of an apartment. They sprayed two men and two women inside with gasoline or some other flammable liquid from a pump garden sprayer, then one of the attackers tossed a match or lighter.
One of the women suffered life-threatening burns and was rushed to University of Colorado Hospital in serious condition. The three others in the apartment in the 4300 block of Lipan Street had comparatively minor injuries, said police spokesman Sonny Jackson.
"This is a highly unusual attack and we're very concerned about it," he said. "We hope that if anyone has any information they will let us know who these two individuals are."
The fire was out before fire crews arrived, and none of the nearby apartments were affected.
Police also are investigating whether there is any link to an attempted robbery in the Curtis Park neighborhood about 3 miles away. A fire was set using a pump sprayer, but no one was injured.
Police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez said that while that case was similar, it did not appear to be directly related.
"There are similarities, but at this point they are not related. That's not to say we won't find out differently," she said.
Neighborhood residents mingled and expressed amazement along the crime scene tape in the dimly lit street.
"Who would do something like this? What kind of animal is he?" said Maria Gomez, who lives nearby but did not know the victims. "I'm probably going to think about this every time there's a knock on the door."
Her husband, Hei, added, "I hate to say it, but I hope there's a motive. If this something just crazy out of the blue, it could happen to you or me. I hope they catch these guys and lock them up forever."
Jackson said the description of the two men was still vague.
Anyone with information can call 911 or Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867. Tips also can be sent by text to CRIMES (274637) with the title DMCS, or by e-mail to metro-denvercrimestoppers.com.
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Why are sportswriters pretending baseball's steroids era is over?
It's easy to understand the media's love-fest with Albert Pujols. The St. Louis Cardinals slugger crushes baseballs into the outer realms. And more important in the wake of the BALCO fiasco, he has yet to be tainted by evidence of steroid use.
Pujols has 25 homers in 51 games played, putting him on pace to break Barry Bonds' record of 73 home runs in a single season. Both fans and rival players breathlessly praise Pujols as they once did Bonds. St. Louis' marketing department is constantly churning with new ideas for milking the Albert cash cow. And within baseball's press boxes, writers and reporters check their e-mail, drink free sodas, and question, well, nothing.
Two weeks ago, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Pujols "is being touted as the first P.S. slugger, post-steroids." The paper also categorized speculation that Pujols might be juicing as an "errant rumor." The New York Times followed up with this Pujols quote: "My testing is proving a lot. It's working really good."
Is Pujols abusing steroids or human growth hormones? I don't know. But what's alarming in this era of deceit is that nobody seems interested in finding out. A little more than one year removed from congressional hearings that produced the most humiliating images in the game's history, baseball writers have a duty to second-guess everything. Instead, everyone is taking Pujols' test results at face value. Have we forgotten that Barry Bonds has never failed one of Major League Baseball's drug tests?
In Sports Illustrated's baseball preview issue, Tom Verducci, who has done great work exposing the proliferation of steroids in baseball, credulously praised the likes of Pujols and Twins catcher Joe Mauer. Verducci exclaimed that baseball is now "a young man's game, belonging to new stars who, certified by the sport's tougher drug policy, have replaced their juiced-up, broken-down elders who aged so ungracefully. It's baseball as it ought to be. A fresh start." In other words: Masking agents? What masking agents?
Last year, editors at the Post-Dispatch assembled a task force to investigate whether Mark McGwire had ingested performance-enhancing drugs. After a short stretch of fruitless reporting, the effort died. One would think that Pujols—a 13th-round draft pick who has put on 20 pounds of muscle since his debut in 2001—would at least warrant a gander, or perhaps a flight or two to his native Dominican Republic to check out the friendly neighborhood pharmacies. Yet the paper has lifted nary a finger in examining Pujols' background. "Albert isn't an enhanced thug like some of the other suspects," explains Rick Hummel, the longtime Post-Dispatch baseball writer. "He hasn't grown significantly and he's always had a lot of power. So what's there to look into?"
What's there to look into? How about this: For the past decade, baseball has been routinely pulling the bait-and-switch with its fan base. When McGwire and Sammy Sosa engaged in "The Chase" for the home-run record during 1998, we were told the game was being saved, that two great men with selfless hearts were doing the impossible. Oops, it was all a lie. Three years later, we were asked to suspend belief yet again as the 37-year-old Bonds, with a head the size of Jupiter, effortlessly broke McGwire's standard.
Why are journalists so soft in this area? One reason: fear of being shut out. Over the course of a 162-game season, beat writers and columnists work their tails off to develop relationships with players. You grovel. You whimper. You plead. You tiptoe up to a first baseman, hoping he has five minutes to talk about that swollen toe. You share jokes and—embarrassingly—fist pounds. Wanna kill all that hard work in six seconds? Ask the following question: Are you juiced?
After having been duped by the men they cover, America's sportswriters are playing dumb again. One year after being dismissed as a has-been, steroid-using fibber, Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi is the toast of New York. Recent articles in metropolitan newspapers have praised the steadfastness and resiliency that have led him to hit a team-high 14 home runs. But where, oh where, are the doubters? At the start of spring training in 2005, Giambi looked smaller than in seasons past. Now, he has muscles atop muscles atop muscles. Yet unlike the San Francisco Chronicle, which dedicated itself (journalistically and financially) to learning the truth about Bonds, none of the New York dailies have assigned an investigative team to the case. The closest we've come is Joel Sherman of the New York Post, who recently wrote a piece titled "Clean Machine—Giambi Says Fast Start Is Untainted." The article dies with this whimper of a quote: "The big thing I learned during all my problems was that I can only control what I can control. I can't stand on a soapbox every day. I am working my tail off."
I, for one, don't believe him. During my six years at Sports Illustrated, I fell for the trick and covered Giambi as the hulking, lovable lug who cracked jokes and hit monstrous homers. All the while, he was cheating to gain an edge. So, why—when MLB doesn't administer a test for human growth hormone—should I believe Giambi is clean?
Likewise, when I look at Roger Clemens, I wonder: Where's the investigative digging? Like Bonds, Clemens is a larger-than-life athletic specimen. Like Bonds, Clemens is producing at an age when most of his peers are knitting. Unlike Bonds, Clemens does not have journalists breathing down his neck. Instead, the hometown Houston Chronicle has covered his recent re-signing with the Astros as a time for unmitigated celebration. Forget combing through his garbage for vials—I just want the Chronicle to ask Clemens whether he's used. Is the Rocket cheating? Again, I don't know. But doesn't someone have to at least try and find out?
"A lot of baseball writers are drunks or cheat on their wives," says Jose de Jesus Ortiz, the Chronicle's Astros beat writer. "I would never question anybody unless I have evidence. It's unfair to feel that just because of Bonds now we're required to question everyone about their methods."
Is it unfair to pester individual athletes about steroids? Maybe. Is it the right thing to do journalistically? Without a doubt.


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